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Usability. To convince people of your service. Get out word of mouth.

Posted on April 7, 2008. Filed under: G Reynolds, Presentation Zen, accessibility, chances to learn, gaining users, hassles in usage, human computer interaction, information architecture, information visualization, lessons learned, mistakes in dealing with page visitors, navigability, rules of thumb, series of posts, suggested reads, usability, useful links | Tags: , , , , |

In my previous article, Gaining users. Lessons learned from blogging., I looked into the question how to gather audience for a blog and what influences most whether people stay or leave. The conclusion I’ve taken so far is that whatever you offer, you need to win over people for whatever step you want them to [...]

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Gaining users. Lessons learned from blogging.

Posted on April 6, 2008. Filed under: 43 Things, advice, attention capturing, become well-known, blogging, competition, gaining users, lessons learned, mistakes in dealing with page visitors, providing benefit, respect, rules of thumb, series of posts, social interaction, story, user experience | Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

This one is going to be a bit long, as I refer to my own experiences in blogging, how I approached increasing the number of readers, my failures and lessons learned. In the end, I come up with a conclusion that points back into the direction of usability and communities.
In 1999, I didn’t care much [...]

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getting into Ruby/Rails and social network development: a quick-glance overview

Posted on March 21, 2008. Filed under: ToC on series of posts, series of posts | Tags: , |

Since about March 17, 2008, I collected my links I unearthed regarding the core of this blog: How to build a barebone social network using Ruby on Rails? Some while ago, I preferred to do things top down, but I learned doing so tends to make me overlook important things: It supports my own way [...]

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